Wallis
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1977 at #5,123
Given to boys 52.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1940 · 26 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 625since 1911
Wallis over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | — | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | #2,764 | 9 |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 | #2,367 | 11 |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | #2,443 | 10 |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 | #2,356 | 11 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 | #2,919 | 7 |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | #2,009 | 12 |
| 1944 | #2,096 | 17 | #1,890 | 14 |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1942 | #1,917 | 20 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #1,810 | 20 | #2,083 | 12 |
| 1940 | #1,682 | 22 | #1,311 | 26 |
| 1939 | #1,797 | 19 | #2,050 | 12 |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 | #1,559 | 19 |
| 1937 | #1,255 | 33 | #1,688 | 17 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | #1,417 | 22 |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,783 | 16 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,471 | 10 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,889 | 16 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,162 | 14 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,436 | 12 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,745 | 20 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,059 | 16 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,966 | 17 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,973 | 16 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,827 | 18 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,070 | 13 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,608 | 15 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
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| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
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| 1892 | — | — | ||
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| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Wallis! It came in at #1,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Wallis
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1977
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1940 at #1,311 (26 births)
- Births halved by 1941, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 37,662 boys born in 1911 were named Wallis (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 273,870 boys born in 1977 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,311 in 1940, was only 1 in 44,584 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.7% of all boys named Wallis (142) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1979, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 96 | #1,537 (1911) | #2,066 |
| 1920s | 142 | #1,745 (1925) | #2,233 |
| 1930s | 129 | #1,417 (1936) | #2,026 |
| 1940s | 119 | #1,311 (1940) | #2,274 |
| 1950s | 80 | #2,186 (1953) | #2,814 |
| 1960s | 42 | #2,673 (1962) | #3,446 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,441 (1972) | #4,824 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Wallis in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 62,609 of them was named Wallis, which outranked 60.6% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,885Woodard18
- #1,885Yasuo18
- #1,885Zoltan18
- #1,966Wallis17
- #1,966Alwyn17
- #1,966Amador17
- #1,966Amedeo17
- #2,052Abie16
- #2,052Albion16
- #2,052Alto16
Tied with 85 names at #1,966; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.